timorous
Example Sentences
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Haynesville companies are being more timorous than before because they need to hit their returns on investment, lest they lose hard-won investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Even amoral or timorous lawyers will hesitate to misbehave if it becomes clear that doing so endangers their livelihood.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2025
An outwardly gentle soul, but with a spine of steel, Fred was never too timorous to lay bare our view on public affairs, including public corruption and injustices.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021
The clash of egos in the struggle to achieve something bracingly innovative wasn’t for the timorous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2019
She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing timorous
Frankenstein
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Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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